HUMANISTIC SCIENCESHistoryCroatian and World Modern and Contemporary History

Study programme type

university

Study level

undergraduate

Study programme

Culture and Tourism

Academic title abbreviation

univ. bacc. turism. cult.

Genre

undergraduate thesis

Language

Croatian

Defense date

2016-09-30

Parallel abstract (English)

Punk rock is a cultural phenomenon which appeared in mid 70s. It is characterized by aggressiveness , rawness and ferocity which is directed to fight against bad social and economics situation that world was in at the time. In addition to dissatisfaction with the current system, dissatisfaction was expressed with the rock music which distanced from original sound at that time and it protests against cult of making instant rock stars. In lyrics of songs topics are racism, sexism, militarism , fascism , violence and other. Role models are found in their predecessors to be more exact in rock music of 50s and 60s flirts in an innovative way with reagge,ska, funk,rnb and rockabilly rhythms. Punck rock brings distincive style of chloting accompanied by colorful shaven haircuts , safety pins and torn clothing . Punk in America appeared as contracultural while in Britain it took the face of subculture. The American punks were passive and they used topisc that were previously mentioned to show regressive elements of the society in that time while in Britain those topics were incentive to increase awareness and direct anger against the rich and wealthy . Punk was the raw copy of the reallity of that time, it was a protest against everything that was wrong and an honest answer to the people which no one could give them.